I’m leaving in the morning for Tuebingen. Look for a new post on Tuesday or Wednesday. In the meantime, the three selections below from a letter after a severe bombing attack raise an interesting question.
Maybe within a few days I will have a new picture of the Neckar river for the header above.
Archive for April, 2008
Travelin’ on
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Severe Loss (Reaction to Heavy Bombing 3 of 3)
Posted in Bonhoeffer, Lesestücke (Readings), tagged bombing, casualty, cultured man on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jan 29 und 30, 1944 (Tegel)
to Eberhard Bethge
Leider hat mich vorgestern nacht ein großser Verlust getroffen. Der für mein Gefühl bei weitem intelligenteste und menschlich sympathischste Mann aus dem hiesigen Haus ist in der Stadt durch einen Volltreffer getötet worden. Ich hätte ihn später bestimmt mit Dir zusammengebracht und wir hatten schon manche Pläne für [...]
Speechless (Reaction to Heavy Bombing 2 of 3)
Posted in Bonhoeffer, tagged a Christian word, Christian comfort, crisis, religious blackmail, religious speech, silence, thief on the cross on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jan 29 und 30, 1944 (Tegel)
to Eberhard Bethge
Veilleicht liegt es daran, daß es mir in einem solchen Augenblick bisher unmöglich gewesen ist, den anderen ein christliches zu sagen. Als wir gestern abend wieder auf dem Fußboden lagen und einer vernehmlich:
“ach Gott, ach Gott!”
rief-sonst ein sehr leichtfertiger Geselle-brachte ich es nicht über mich, [...]
Reaction to Heavy Bombing
Posted in Bonhoeffer, tagged bombing, judgment, need, praise, prayer, wrath of God on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jan 29 und 30, 1944 (Tegel)
to Eberhard Bethge
Ps. 50 heißt es ganz deutlich:
“Rufe mich an in der Not, so will ich Dich erretten, so sollst Du mich preisen.”
Die ganze Geschichte der Kinder Israel besteht aus solchen Hilfeschreien.
Und ich muß sagen, daß gerade die letzten beiden Nächte mich wieder ganz elementar vor diese [...]
Was für finanzielle Unterstützung verweigerte Paulus? (2 Kor 11,7-9)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged early Christianity, Patronage, research, sociology on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an outline of a paper I plan to present next month to a German-English colloquium. The main presentation will be in English, but I will provide an outline in German. I know some of the readers are further advanced than I am, so if you see a better way to [...]
Quote of the Week–Stereotypes
Posted in Quotes, tagged antisemitism, Jewish Historical Museum, stereotypes on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo from Jupi.homepage
Ich werde oft gefragt, ob Juden eine “semitische” Nase haben. Nach 54 Jahren der Beschäftigung mit diesem Thema, kann ich nur feststellen, daß jeder Jude, den ich getroffen habe, eine Nase hat.
(Sander L. Gilman, 1944, Historiker Jüdisches Museum Berlin)
die Beschäftigung preoccupation
der Jude, die Juden Jew
die Nase nose
fragen, gefragt werden (psv) ask
feststellen [...]
ZUG DER ERINNERUNG
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Train of Remembrance is making its way through German cities, commemorating German children who were deported by the Nazis. The German government seems to be dragging its feet in supporting the traveling exhibit. A friend of a friend from Kansas sent this link:
http://www.zug-der-erinnerung.eu/index.html
If you click “Press Release” on the right, you can get some [...]
CONTEST!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Contest: I didn’t get any takers when this was embedded in a previous post, so I’m trying again, with an incentive. The first one to post correct answers to the two following questions will win the prize–a piece of Belgian chocolate. When you post a comment, your email address will be sent [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Tilling noted, in a very appropriate post, that yesterday (April 9) was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Day, the anniversary of his death in 1945 (here). He quotes a song from the Evangelisches Gesangbuch, that is an adaptation of Bonhoeffer’s Prayer for Prisoners posted earlier here.
I’ve Got to Buckle Down . . .
Posted in Blogging, tagged Bonhoeffer, Institute for Research in Christian Origins, Prague, Tuebingen on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
. . . and get to work. I’m having too much fun.
In a few short weeks I have to present two papers in Tuebingen at the Institute for Christian Origins. One is a draft of the paper I will be presenting in Prague later in the summer; this is to a Theological German group. The [...]
